BALBIR PUNJ

Balbir Punj  Very often, analysts tend to attribute rising incidents of attack on women to widespread poverty in the country or to illiteracy or to traditional Indian values which discriminate against women. If that were the case, the…
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 Balbir Punj What is the mystery behind the self-proclaimed social activists giving a miss to the important development of opposition to women's reservation in Nagaland civic polls? What is the secret behind the silence? While the media in…
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Balbir Punj  The internal contradictions in the official reactions of China at the Goa Brics (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) summit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's apt description of Pakistan as the "mother-ship of…
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 Balbir Punj  Way back in 1991, when the then Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao and his hand-picked Union Finance Minister Manmohan Singh decided to unleash economic reforms and dismantle the Nehruvian economic model, they hit two birds with…
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Balbir Punj  It's not often in history that one leader builds an entire global policy by his perception or diplomacy, and takes the global community with him, except perhaps a handful of self-construed enemies. So, when Prime Minister…
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Balbir Punj  Prime Minister Narendra Modi's decision to visit Israel, the first by an Indian Prime Minister to the Jewish nation, breaks the Congress legacy of subordinating national interest to ideological commitments and vote-bank…
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Balbir Punj In January 2014, at the most famous annual high table of global entrepreneurs in Davos, India could gain only a small table. "The India Story was over", they said. Many Indian industrialists had sensed the mood earlier and did…
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Balbir Punj  Congress leaders are pushing the media to hail Rahul Gandhi's return to active leadership of his party as the Second Coming of a political 'prince'. A rally in Delhi is followed by a surge into Punjab to commiserate with the…
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Balbir Punj  After being elected at the Communist Party of India (Marxist)'s 21st congress to replace the jaded leadership of Prakash Karat, Sitaram Yechury, -considered to be the 'good' communist, honed in the Left politics of Jawaharlal…
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 Balbir Punj The one word that could capture the spirit of 2014 is 'transformation'. That the total change in the political and economic scenario has emerged out of the expectations of a young India and a leader who could understand and…
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